On the recordMay 6, 2010
I am sometimes a patient person. I am really doing my best to be patient. I am going into this with good faith, as I hope my Republican colleagues are. We have not gotten a lot done. The issue we are working on is very important. But I just tell my friends on the other side of the aisle, we do not need a filibuster by some other name. I am approaching this in good faith. People have worked very hard. We have a lot to do. I think it goes without saying that we were at a meeting today, and we were told we have to complete the supplemental for the war spending by the time we leave here. That came from Secretary Gates. We have a lot to do. My suggestion is that people who want to offer amendments work tomorrow, they work Saturday and Sunday. The Banking staff will be available and the Agriculture staff will be available. If you have amendments, bring them together. We have a lot of amendments, but many of them are on the same subject. Work with the Banking staff and the Agriculture staff to come up with the amendments we can move through as quickly as possible. I want people, if they have something to say, to say it, but we don't need hours and hours to say it. One of the most important amendments we are trying to do is one that has been talked about by Senators Kaufman and Brown for weeks. And he has agreed to take 5 minutes on it. It has been talked about. We have read it. Senator Brown has agreed to take 5 minutes.
